CHAPTER TWO Culturing Meat For The Future: Anti-Death Versus Anti-Life

• Main Author: Brian J. Ford
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.424.5720; http://www.brianjford.com/anthDEATH7 Ford[published].pdf

Humans can no longer afford to eat meat on a large scale. Livestock production imposes a vast burden on global resources and it is one that the expanding world population can no longer sustain. Yet imagine if we were able to culture such food in factories: we might then be able to manufacture virtually limitless supplies at a greatly reduced cost and a lessened environmental load. In 1976 I calculated that: “We could provide more than enough food for the world‟s population from an area the size of an industrial estate. ” The culture of living cells, I said, would allow us to provide proteinaceous foodstuffs for a large global population from an area the size of a city. 1 The complex could be sited in the freezing wastes of the Arctic so that metabolic temperatures could be simply controlled (there was no thought that the warming effect might pose a problem, when writing onethird